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i `CHRISTIAN PFEFFER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

CHl-LDS CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,203, dated.A November 8, 1881.

` Application tiled August 24, 1881. (No model.) V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHRIsTrAN PFERFER,

ot' Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lImprovements on a Ghilds Carriage; and4 a full, clear, and exact specication, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to a new and improved article'ofmanufacture-viz., sleigh-runners to be applied to childrens carriages to convert them into sleighs; and it consists, essentially, in such novel combination of parts and details of construction as hereinafter iirst fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully,

Figure lisa side elevation ot' a childs carriage.

Fig. 2 is a similar view ot' a sleigh-runner. Fig. 3 is a plan, and Fig. 4 an end, view of the same. Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in allthe figures.

In these drawings, letter A designates the body of a ehilds carriage. B are the side bars, curved, as shown at C, and terminating `in a handle, D, E is the rear axle, and F the front axle. Gr is the hub ofthe rear, and H that of' the front, wheel. K is acurved spring, placed midway between the rear wheels. One of its ends is iixed to the body A and the other to a cross -bar, K', connecting the side bars, B. L M are a set of curved springs, placed upon the side bars andsupporting the body, as clearly shown in the drawings. v

To convert this childs carriage into a sleigh I remove the wheels I and J and place upon the axle-arms E F a device consisting of a curved runner, N, and a similarly-curved rave, Q, both runner and rave terminating in a swanhead. To the rave Q are secured two hubs, G H', respectively, having knees orspokes O P,

terminating in the runner N.

In childrens carriages the front wheels are usually of narrower gage than the rear wheels, so that if the rave and runners were parallel with each other the runners would converge, and thereby be but badly suited t'or the purpose. lo compensate for this difference in length' of said axles, I arrange the rave obliquely to the ruimer, and incline the knees I?, while those of the rear hub, G', are vertical. In this rnanner the runners, which are made right and left, will be parallel. Y

It will be readily observed that this device forms a veri' desirable adjunct to a chiilds carriage, and that, owing to its simplicity of construction and consequent cheapness, it can be sold at such a low iigure as to bring it within reach ot' all persons having use for a ehilds carriage.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United Statesl. As an improved article of manufacture,4

from bent wood, a pair ot' sleigh-rulziners for a childs carriage consisting, essentially, of a curved runner, N, a curved rave, Q,jointing the runner in the` swan-head R, hubs G and II', and the spokes O P, said spokes connecting the hubs and runner, as specified, the rave being' ololiquelyT arranged in relation to the runner N and the front spokes inclined, substantially in the manner as and for the object specitied.

2. In ehildrens vehicles, a pair otV runners, having the rave arranged obliquely to the runner, and the front spokes inclined and the'rear spokes vertical, substantially as and for the purpose stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as` my invention I have hereunto set my hand Vin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRISTIAN PFEFFER. 

